NEWS & EVENTS

The physicist Professor Metin Tolan will become the next President of the University of Göttingen. The Senate of the University unanimously agreed this decision today. The University Foundation Committee also approved this proposal unanimously. Tolan succeeds Professor Reinhard Jahn, who held the office until 31 December 2020. Since that time, full-time Vice-President Dr. Valérie Schüller has been Acting President of the University on an interim basis. Tolan's term of office is expected to begin in the spring.

On 19 November the Swedish government formally appointed Professor Anders Hagfeldt as new Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University.

On January 25th 2021, Eva Ferreira was formally appointed Rector of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Between 2017 and 2020, Uppsala University and the University of Groningen work together in the Erasmus+ project LISTO: Latin American and European Cooperation on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The consortium of universities from Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina worked with practical tools for university-industry relations and entrepreneurial universities, and developed an International Virtual Classroom for entrepreneurship education.

The MOOC "Understanding EU-Russia Relations: Foreign Policy Actors, Institutions and Policy-Making" (2 ECTS) at the University of Tartu is open for registration. The registration deadline is 4 February 2021 at 22:59 (CET). The course is free of charge and fully online, running on the Moodle platform of the University of Tartu from 8 February to 14 March, 2021. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be able to receive a digital certificate from the University of Tartu, which is worth 2 ECTS.

The Espace Langues, a centre for language learning andintercultural exchange at the University of Bordeaux, invites ENLIGHT students to join our virtual exchange for Spring 2021.